Sunday, August 31, 2014

Day 50 - Travel Day - Ferry to North Sidney









Early 6:30 AM line up to caravan to ferry terminal – Raining







 






Yup – on the right road








 







Maybe rain will stop?








 





Drive through a rock-walled road with check in at end




 







ID’s ready – here we wait to check in














All lined up 3 ½ hours before boarding time – phew!









 






Finally loaded in the belly of the beast








 





This ferry trip had live entertainment!








 Dinner with friends on board ferry
 



 




 
Not much day left








 






Across the bridge







 







Campground KOA from bridge






 





KOA












Welcome


 









 Private parking host



 
All rigs with views. Time for bed





Submitted by  Bettie and Eric Runnalls

 

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Day 49 - Travel Day - Grand Codroy, NFLD




We toured the Newfoundland Insectarium, a very nice facility with extensive exhibits of assorted insects as well as an area of live butterflies to walk through.     Afterwards we traveled to Grand Codroy, NFLD and had a stir fry in the evening.

 



 Joe does a little maintenance for the travel day.










 




A short walk across the highway for Biology 101 class.






Lots of bugs, butterflies and spiders in this place.






 






Breakfast time for the butterflies. 






 A bright model of a couple of butterflies.






 






        Camouflaged butterflies.






 




A very good story about the life of a bee, then three songs to enjoy before we looked at all the exhibits. 





 




The bee hive was a main attraction, searching for the Queen Bee was the challenge.









A little difficulty on the road.  The Toons in Unit 12 experienced a rear tire tread separation on their truck.  Luck was very much with them...the tire maintained pressure, a wide pull off just ahead, room for four rigs to stop to help, an entrance ramp just ahead leading to a Canadian Tire store just down the hill, it was still open…


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…and they had a replacement tire.  Just another proven point on why travel in Adventure Caravans is the safest and most secure way of RVing. 





 





Greta got some Crawdads in the basket.






 






Another veggie stir fry cooked by Eric and Betty….mmmmm, good.







Submitted by Linda & (Flat Tire) Monte Toon
 


Friday, August 29, 2014

Day 48 - Travel Day - Deer Lake, NFLD







The day started out COLD!   The furnace hadn’t been turned on in the RV so it was cold inside as
well as out!








I watched people getting ready to leave the St. Barbe RV Center in the morning, wearing winter coats.
As we rolled down the road the weather warmed up, the sun came out brighter, and the scenery was gorgeous!  We went from having the heater on, to opening the windows to get some cooler air.








We stopped at the Arches Provincial Park since we had missed it on the way up to St. Barbe.










The Arches were spectacular.




We drove on and made a couple more stops just to take in the landscapes around us.  It felt like old man winter had left us for good.






We eventually rolled into the Gateway to the North Campground in Deer Lake, NL where everyone was in shirt sleeves or light sweaters.  Quite a contrast from early this morning!





Submitted by Bill and Sheila Martin